I do do knitting on occation too.

I seem to have got into this terrible habbit of casting on things and then not getting round to finishing them. Right now i have two bags, one large blanket, one sock and two baby blankets (for my special project which i will tell you about after. Out of these things onely one is even halfway through. I blame my sister for teaching me the one needle cast on method lol.
In the last few weeks i have managed to finish two items. The first is what i call my fraggle scarf. I love the colours on this and its really soft i wish i could say that i enjoyed knitting it though.

This next one i am really pleased with, it's a little SKBU body warmer. It's the first time i have had a go at clothes so to speak, i know there are no sleeves but i had to make buttong holes and do shaping which i haven't really done before. The body warmer has buttons on the shoulders so that it can be put on the baby without distrubing any tubes and wires there may be. It is really soft as i did it in snowflake and it only took about 18 hours of knitting time over four days which for me is great.

New additions

About three weeks ago George came up to me in the school yard and asked if he could have a pet snail. Yes you read right a snail. It turns out one of the teachers has giant african land snails and they have had babies.....lots of babies. I went to see the teacher and she assured me that they are very easy to look after all i needed to get was a little tank for it. So we went to the pet shop and got the tank, they didn't have any smalll ones so we got the medium one which was fine as it wasn't that much more. Only trouble was George figured out there would be room for two snails in this tank.
When we got them they were tiny, i really didn't realise how tiny they would be. Well prepared mummy didn't think about taking a picture of them until they had been with us a week. They grew by about 50%.

So let me introduce to you Martha & The Doctor although they don't look like this now they have doubled in size again. They are great fun to watch if you look carefully you can see them eating and when they are on your hand you can feel them moving and sort of licking you.

It's close to midnight

A bit late for this but i have been busy with coursework so the blog kind of got swept under the carpet. Every year i tend to get stuff in for trick or treaters and every year no-one comes and i end up scoffing all the goodies, so this year i went to a party instead saved my money and my hips. George helped me to carve the pumpkin the day before halloween so all we had to do was figure out what he was going to dress up as, i think there are only so many times a boy can dress up a the grim reaper before he gets fed up. As usual being the well prepared mother that i am we had to do a mad dash to the shops to find something nice and cheep to wear. Cut to ten minutes later and we are heading back to the car with a tube of fake blood, a glow stick and some stick on scabs&cuts. Tie this in with George's kick boxing outfit,some talc and some of my make up and this is what results...


This is our effort at pumpkin carving although i have to say it wasn't all our own work because i got the stensils of the internet.

Mama's got a brand new bag

Well i finally finished the joint Bag Ladies project at the weekend. I have had the bag ready to sew together for a while now but only got round to it at the weekend. I am really pleased with most of it. It's just the handles i am not too fussed on. I haven't lined it yet but its ready to go...no idea when that will happen mind lol.

I think the reason i ended up making the bag was because i got really into making bags. I started making one off the top of my head while i had a few days off last week. I am really pleased with how it turned out too. I am sure there are patterns out there like this but i just went with the flow when i made it. If feels really soft although i think i need to line this one too.

Then as i seemed to be on a role i wanted to do something else. I had this tape like stuff and had no clue what to to with it. I really didn't like it before i started knitting it up but i am pleased with how it turned out and it needs to be lined. The pattern was a twisted ribbon stitch that i got from free patterns online.

Cards

I got into making cards a while ago but i only make them now and again as i always worry they will be rubbish. I then only thought to take photo's of just a few of them. Anyway here they are. The first one was for my neice i also made her a little bookmark.

Not really sure who the butterfly card was for.

The baby card was for a dear frind of mine who had a very special little girl a few years after her first child Joshua passed away at 2 days old.

The last one is for a lady that i work with who is like a mother to me.

A little bit more of me.

I thought i might show a few more bits of stuff i like to do.


The first thing i ever learned to was cross stitch. I took it up to while away the time when my DH was playing cricket. I have stitched many thing since then and have even tried designing a few myself. I don't have pictures of everything i did but here are a few of my favourites.
The one with the boys at the beach is one i did in memory of my three little boys who were born sleeping. Evan, Adam and Ryan. A friend bought it for me and it was just perfect as they are all blonde and you can't see their faces.

This is one is the one i am proudest of to date. It took me quite a while to design and even longer to sew. On the red pannel i have added beads by hand one by one.It was for my sisters wedding and she had no idea i was making it. I kept asking questions about what her & her husband would be wearing, at the time i was also planning her hen night so she was a little worried. The look on their face when they saw it was worth staying up till all hours for the weeks/months it took.

I have a stash

I knew it would happen some time so i guess i shouldn't moan. I have been knitting on and off for a few years now but only ever easy things like square or really easy premee clothes. I had only ever bought wool for the job needed when the job would be done. As an avid crafter of many things i have built up a stash of some of the other hobbies i do, like cross stitch ( if i never buy another pattern again i still would have too many to do in my lifetime), card making and scrapbooking too.

I tell you the devil made me do it yesterday though. My sister phoned me and asked me if i wanted to take a trip to colinette as a friend of ours had some great bargins there over the weekend. How could i not go. We spent a total of about 6 hours in the car for 25 minutes of shopping but i tell you it was all worth it.

I was more restrained then my sister and went for a £10 mix bag. I can't tell you what exactly was in there as none of the stuff has any labels on. All i know is i have some mohair, and some jitterbug. I also got some other stuff some of which i think is banyan. In total the whole stash cost me £19.40. I don't really know what i am going to do with most of it although i might try some shawls, scarfs and cushion covers.